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The British women's pursuit team has the backs of their male counterparts in the Olympic village.

You see, after watching the men's pursuit squad win its third straight gold medal in the discipline on Friday night, the women tacked up a note on their door directing the men to their room _ you know, just in case they celebrated a bit much.

British rider Owain Doull snapped a picture of the sign, which was probably a wise idea considering Bradley Wiggins also was on the squad. He famously posted all kinds of photos on social media of him living it up the night after winning Olympic gold in the time trial at the 2012 London Games.

The women's pursuit team needed their rest, too. They were riding against the U.S. for gold on Saturday night.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of Jesse Owens and America's 17 other black athletes from the 1936 Olympics were welcomed to the White House on Thursday by President Barack Obama for the acknowledgement they didn't receive along with their white counterparts 80 years ago.

Along with the relatives of the 1936 African-American Olympians, gloved-fist protesters Tommie Smith and John Carlos and members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams met the president and first lady Michelle Obama. Obama congratulated the Rio athletes, thanked Smith and Carlos for waking up Americans in 1968 and praised 1936 Olympians who made a statement in front of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.

TOKYO (AP) — An expert panel set up by Tokyo's newly elected governor says the price tag of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could exceed $30 billion unless drastic cost-cutting measures are taken. That's more than a four-fold increase from the initial estimate at the time Tokyo was awarded the games in 2013.